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[–] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 105 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Holy shit I was almost excited there might be one thing to make the coming cycle less shitty until I saw the community

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 70 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Here's one that's real: he's promised to ban high-fructose corn syrup, which is banned in most other developed countries. It should have been banned in the US decades ago.

He might be a wakadoodle, but he might still get a few things right by accident

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yea, except somehow we'll end up with something worse replacing it.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

High fructose fentanyl syrup

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

No no, Trump's tariffs on China are payback for not watching entanyl exportr. Just a stream of consciousness.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I don't think your corn growers would be very happy with that.

[–] annHowe@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck 'em. They'll survive on their many subsidies.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Once they raise the global temperatures enough all of the Iowa corn farmers can just farm rice and sugar cane along the Iowa coastline.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I propose we lower Texas enough to flood the Great Plains and revive the Ordovician Sea.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or those of the pecan pie persuasion.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Use golden syrup, sorghum or honey?

Admission: I can’t stand pecan pie because of it’s hyper-sweetness. Maybe less corn soup would help?

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[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hell try and then we'll be reading a news story about how his brain worms finally kennedy'd him the next hour after the attempt. HFCS and the multitude of corporations producing and using it aren't some pushover industry like oil and natural gas, they have actual power.

There's a reason corn is in everything processed in the US.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

How tf is the oil and natural gas industry a pushover? They're literally destroying the earth and getting away with it.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All the pro-small-government people I know (the ones wanting less oversight on guns) are excited for this ban and don't see the irony that they're really only small-government in the topics they want, big-government in others they decided are bad (hfcs, some red dye, banning men from women's bathrooms). We all want government protections, turns out.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, and to be clear, I'm not thrilled about him being in charge of health, but if that's gonna be one of his things that he gets right, I would be stupid not to take what little solace I can get.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think Canada has it banned either lol

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just gotta elect a guy with a brain worm, I guess...?

[–] sulgoth@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, we kinda just follow the US.

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

America Hat is part of America I thought?

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This implies the US is a developed country.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, it is by most definitions that I'm aware of. It might be run by fascists, oligarchs, and ultracapitalists, but it's definitely developed.

I'm not sure what standard you are applying that would place it in a "developing" or other category.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the best we can hope for is that Trump seems unlikely to fuck with state laws regarding marijuana. That’s fine with me.

That’s not to say I wouldn’t try the Coke, though.

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

I’d def try coke-aine

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 66 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually can't tell what's a parody any more

[–] Wisely@lemm.ee 19 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I thought this was real news at first.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks ago

He might try but Don Jr will be snorting it faster than the factory could add it.

And no one in the mainstream media will care.

[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The fact that I read this headline and my first through wasn't doubt in any capacity is insane. Satire is now lamer than reality, jesus christ...

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 16 points 3 weeks ago

The reason that is that fiction has to be coherent. It has to make sense.

Reality is under no such constraint.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Given that RFK jr was a heroin addict for decades, I was once again fooled by this and I thought it was real.

Satire has been dead for years anyway.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

the onion actually doesn't do satire any longer.

they do prophesy now.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Official lathe handlers

[–] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

One can dream...

I do wish this were prophecy

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah he was on record last week saying it improved his grades as a student lol

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

wow for a solid ten seconds did not realize this was onion. I guess this will become more and more frequent over the next four years.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

I've wanted this for years. I hope he sees this article and decides to do it.

[–] TheDrink@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn, just after it gets added to the BDS list.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 weeks ago

Could shoplift it just to try

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 8 points 3 weeks ago

Damn, they almost got me lol

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

100% serious here: I have had mate de coca, or tea made from the coca leaf. There used to be a place that would ship it to the U.S. without asking questions, but it doesn't exist anymore. It basically takes a field's worth of coca to make an ounce of cocaine, so this is a tiny fraction of the strength of cocaine. It tasted pretty awful- like damp straw smells- but with enough sweetener, it was acceptable.

It makes you much more awake and alert than coffee with no jittery feeling and it's totally gone after maybe 4 hours. You can have mate de coca when you get up, do a few hours' worth of work and then take a nap and sleep like you'd never had anything to stimulate you. It's pretty damn amazing and it's stupid that it's illegal.

I'm guessing they have ways to do things in South America about the taste.

Edit: Also, I was telling this to my wife's cousin, who is also my GP, and he was telling me that he would get it when he went down to do charity work in El Salvador all the time and agreed it should be totally legal in the U.S. He's a cool guy.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's amazing for altitude sickness. When I was in Bolivia, I basically lived off coca tea.

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[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Coke in a can: mid Coke in a bottle: okay Coke in a bag: LET'S FUCKING GO

[–] shreddingitlater@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

NOOOOO ITS FAKE, FUCK

spoiler(I don't like coke or cocaine just thought it would be funny to say)

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ngl i wish this was real lol

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It will be a rolled in approach. Whatever you can't roll in, you put it in the soda.

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

We're really gonna let the brain worm run shit, huh?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Going to guess the dea is gonna be defanged for that little escapade

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